This still frame is taken from a fully animated sequence created in Blender, focusing on photorealism and technical shading accuracy. The environment was built using ultra-high-resolution 40k Earth textures, featuring a custom multi-layered shading setup for the planet surface, cloud coverage, and volumetric atmosphere. A key technical feature of the scene is the automated lighting rig: the sun’s rotation is mathematically linked via drivers to the emission shaders, ensuring city lights on the dark side of the Earth appear dynamically only when in shadow. The project utilized a professional linear workflow, exporting Multilayer EXRs to DaVinci Resolve for granular compositing, color grading, and final color correction.